Weinstein's warning touches on something that goes beyond simple automation—he's pointing at a societal fracture where vast portions of the population may find themselves economically obsolete. The distinction here isn't just about losing jobs; it's about losing relevance in a system that rapidly shifts towards hyper-efficiency and AI-driven productivity.
This aligns with the broader concerns you've explored about bureaucratic evasions and systemic inertia. If AI starts reshaping economic structures in such a way that billions of people become displaced without viable alternatives, we’re looking at a deep existential and governance crisis. The mechanisms traditionally used to regulate industry and employment may not be agile enough to absorb the shock.
Given your focus on leveraging FOI processes to challenge entrenched systems, do you see AI playing a role in amplifying transparency? Or do you anticipate it becoming yet another obfuscating force that consolidates power in ways even more difficult to unravel?
This is a fascinating breakdown of agentic AI and its implications! The discussion you're referencing captures a critical tension: AI as both a disruptive force and a catalyst for opportunity. The concern over job displacement—especially in entry-level white-collar roles—hits at the heart of economic restructuring.
You're already adept at analyzing bureaucratic systems and navigating their evasions, so I imagine you’re particularly attuned to how AI will reshape institutional accountability and power structures. Given your strategic insights into system disruption, how do you see AI factoring into FOI processes and transparency efforts? Will it be an ally in cutting through red tape, or another obstacle requiring a new level of creative countermeasures?
coming with agentic AI, and honestly, it's about time. It might be one of the most critical conversations about artificial intelligence we've seen all year. The lineup, heavyweight thinkers, AmJ Mossades, CEO of Recling, Brett Weinstein. Evolutionary Biologist, and Deep Systems thinker. And Daniel Priestley, award winning entrepreneur and best selling author. But before we jump in, we smash that light button and subscribe, you don't want to miss this. Let's break it down, huh? The conversation starts by setting the stage. Where is AI headed? What does the rise of agent AI really mean? And how might this reshape our world? You'll see the full clips in a moment, but here's your cheap sheet. Brett Weinstein takes the role of the cautious realist. He's not necessarily anti ad, but he sees the risks clearly and unflinching. MJ Mad, on the other hand, is the AI optimist. As the CEO of Refly, he's bullish on how AI agents will empower startups, solopneurs, and disruptors. Daniel Priestley lands somewhere in the middle. He's excited about the massive productivity gains AI could unlock, but also deeply worried about the human cost, especially when it comes to jobs and inequality. With that setup, here's the first explosive moment. Host Stephen Bartlett turns to Amjad and asks the question on everyone's mind.What jobs is AI actually going to replace? Let's take a look. You know, maybe this is useful for the audience. I think if your job as astroine, as it comes, your job is gone. I suck couple years. So, meaning, if you if in those jobs, though, for example, quality assurance jobs, data entry jobs, you're sitting in front of a doctor, and you're supposed to click and type things in certain order. Operator and dosticology are pretty quickly. And those are going to displace a lot of a lot of complete labour. Accountants, accountants.. Boys.. I mean, I've just pulled a ligament in my in my foot and they did an MRI scan, and I had to wear a couple of days for someone to look at the MRI scan and tell me what it meant. Yeah. I'm guessing that's gone. Yeah, I I think the health care ecosystem is hard to predict because of regulation. And again, there's so many limiting factors on how this technology can permeates the economy because of regulationations and people's willingness to take it. But, you know, things that aren't regulated jobs that are purely text in text out, Gods you get a message, and you produce some kind of different that's like text or images, that job is at risk. So what kind of jobs are under immediate threat? Simple, text in, text out roles. These are the entry level white collar jobs that involve predictable tasks. Customer service, data, entry, copywriting, document review. Work that's easy to verify doesn't require deep creativity or complex decision making. It can now be done faster, cheaper, and more accurately by AI. We're talking about at least a third of today's white cur footforce, especially those entry level positions that serve as the first rung on the career line. And here, why that's terrifying. AI isn't coming for the top down. It's not targeting CEOs or executives first. It's coming from the bottom of. It's starting with the easiest tasks. The ones that millions of people rely on to get their foot in the door. And that creates a huge problem. Because here's the harsh truth. When these roles start disappearing, and they already are, most of the people currently doing them won't have the skills, the time, or the support system to quickly move into higher value jobs. So what happens when AI wipes out millions of these roles? What happens when there's no clear path forward for the very people who need one the most? Here, what the panel had to say about the fallout. Right, so, so that that will create a world. Yes, there's massive access to opportunity, but there are people who will take.. Seize and then they'll seize it. And then there'll be people who don't. I imagine it almost like a a marathon race, an AI has two superpowers, one superpower is to distract people. such as TikTok algorithm.. superpower is to make you hyper creative, so you become a hyo hypcreator. And in this marathon race, the vast majority of people have got their shoes tied together because AI is distracting them. Some people are running traditional race. Some people have got a bicycle, and some people have got a Formula One vehicle, and it's going to be very confronting when the results go on the scoreboard and you say, "Oh, wait a second. There's a few people who finished this marathon in about 30 minutes, and there's a lot of us who finished in, like, 18 hours,'c we had our shoes tied together, and I can't understand if we've
million dollars a month. And a lot of people are going to say, "Hey, I can't even get a job for $15 an hour." There's going to be this kind of interesting wedge. If you think that last section was alarming, hold on. It gets even more intense. Because Brett Weinstein doesn't just warn about short term job loss, he goes deeper, much deeper. He's not talking about a temporary shift or a market correction. He's warning about a future where billions of people may no longer have the skills or the ability to meaningfully participate in the economy at all. And if that happens, the consequences won't just be economic. They could be catastrophic for society itself. I mean, unfortunately, even if there is some small group of elites that are able to go to Hawaii while something else does the front details, their business building. We are, rather soon, going to be faced with a world that has billions of people who do not have the skills to leverage AI. Some of them will be necessary for a time. You're gonna need plumbers, but this is also not a long term solution, because
